Author Archives: stephenkmacksd

Title this: Larry Summers finds an ally in Wolfgang Schäuble? … A promising approach for Brussels to take would be a eurozone debt redemption pact, similar to the sinking funds devised by Robert Walpole and Alexander Hamilton. As the first Treasury … Continue reading →

Like most Americans of certain generations ‘we’ received our inoculations in Public Schools. In a time when Public Health was a prime consideration. That in a time that sees ‘our’ infant mortality rate, that now ranks 33 out of 36 … Continue reading →

Headline: How the Mideast Conflict Is Blowing Up the Region, the Democratic Party and Every Synagogue in America Here are the first two paragraphs, of Mr. Friedman’s hysterically framed comment, on the Zionist Faschist State’s blitzkrieg against the Palestinians: Lord … Continue reading →

The first two paragraphs of Mr. Ganesh’s exercise in History Made to Measure utterly disappoints: where are those arresting aperçus, that at times make his essays resonate with an intensity, that directs the readers attention away from its political content. … Continue reading →

Headline: Belarus kidnapping sets a dangerous global precedent Sub-headline: Europe and the US must arrest the slide into international lawlessness Where was Mr. Rachman when America invaded Afghanistan, decaled ‘War’: Blitzkrieg on Iraq: the demonstrably incompetent Paul Bremer disbanded the vital … Continue reading →

I read the first two chapters of ‘The Metaphysical Club’ that features Oliver Wendell Holmes. And because I had purchased ‘Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: Law And The Inner Self’ from an Oxford University Press book sale: also because I found … Continue reading →

As former speech writer for Larry Summers, and his soon-to-be Boswell, Luce is to put it mildly, as obtuse as Larry, two utterly clueless white males! The headline writers of his newspaper use the notion of ‘urban crime wave‘, can … Continue reading →

Headline: US targets ‘stable, predictable’ ties with Russia Sub-headline: Blinken and Lavrov hold first face-to-face talks of Biden presidency in Reykjavik The untenable political fiction of ‘Russian Interference’ in the 2016 election, led Blinken and Joe to engage in dull-witted … Continue reading →

The first paragraph of Mr. Freidman’s May 11, 2021 column is demonstrative of a trivialization of the wholesale murder of Palestinians, by The Zionist Fascists State!    Let’s see, what happens when TikTok meets Palestinian grievances about right-wing Israeli land … Continue reading →

The Financial Times obligingly presents a capsule version of a possible CV for Mr. Indyk: The writer is a former US Special Envoy for Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations, distinguished fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and author of the forthcoming book … Continue reading →